Dolf -- the advantage would primarily be that access to the various resources would be simpler; there would be no reason to call "getResource()" or "hasResource()" -- just use simply isset() and property retrieval. The bootstrap doesn't have any public properties currently anyways.

Posted by julien PAULI (doctorrock83) on 2009-07-06T11:47:03.000+0000

Yeah, that's it. __magic methods are very nice as they usually make an API look simpler and "user-friendly"er.

I just wanted Zend review to know if nothing was planned in using more __magic methods in the future in that class. Apparently not, so I'll patch that.
I can see no use case about __set() so I wont write one.